{"id":734,"date":"2026-08-20T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/?p=734"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:01:26","slug":"sinn-und-bedeutung-proceedings-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/2026\/08\/20\/sinn-und-bedeutung-proceedings-published\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper out on mereological and arithmetic division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paper by Elizabeth Coppock has been published in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de\/sub\/index.php\/sub\/article\/view\/1331\">Unifying mereological and arithmetic division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>This paper focuses on the Hungarian suffix &#8211;<\/span><em>nk\u00e9nt<\/em><span>, which co-lexifies arithmetic division and mereological division. It is first established that &#8211;<\/span><em>nk\u00e9nt<\/em><span>, like\u00a0<\/span><em>per<\/em><span>, expresses the notion of division (quotient) in the\u00a0<\/span><em>arithmetic<\/em><span>\u00a0sense. This observation motivates an analysis grounded in quantity calculus, as has previously been argued for\u00a0<\/span><em>per<\/em><span>. At the same time, &#8211;<\/span><em>nk\u00e9nt<\/em><span>\u00a0has a wide range of usage, including uses as frequency adverbials and in cases that could be translated with English\u00a0<\/span><em>by<\/em><span>, as in\u00a0<\/span><em>by<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>color<\/em><span>, among others that could be seen as involving\u00a0<\/span><em>mereological<\/em><span>\u00a0division of an event into subevents. The paper offers a unified analysis, building on several ways of enriching of the arithmetic division analysis, including a homogeneity operator. One lesson from this exercise is that distributivity, implemented via mereological division, can be factored into these two components, viz. arithmetic division and homogeneity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper by Elizabeth Coppock has been published in the proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 30: Title: Unifying mereological and arithmetic division Abstract: This paper focuses on the Hungarian suffix -nk\u00e9nt, which co-lexifies arithmetic division and mereological division. It is first established that -nk\u00e9nt, like\u00a0per, expresses the notion of division (quotient) in the\u00a0arithmetic\u00a0sense. This observation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/lislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}